AUSTIN -- Austin's city clerk has validated the petition to place CodeNext on the November ballot, Bryce Bencevengo with the City of Austin confirmed Monday morning.
Bencevengo said the petition will now go before the Austin City Council at their regular meeting on Thursday. The council can then decide to either accept the petition and make it law or put the petition on the ballot for voters to decide.
The petition gathered over 31,000 signatures over the past six months, of which 25 percent of the signatures were found by the city clerk's office to have met the threshold to allow the petition to move forward.
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Code Next involves the rewrite of the city's land development code. Land development code "covers zoning and so, at its core, it affects what can be built in Austin and how much, where," City of Austin Code Next Principal Planner Jennifer Todd told KVUE. "It's really the look and feel of our city. So when you step outside, anything that you see is a result of the land development code."